Band-Aids on Cancer

I don't own a gun. My wife was held up at gunpoint on two separate occasions. Having a gun held to your head leaves...

Butch Dean

I don’t own a gun. My wife was held up at gunpoint on two separate occasions. Having a gun held to your head leaves a lasting trauma. This said, I do have some thoughts about this whole gun issue.

Weapons cannot think or move on their own (unless you’re into SciFi stories). Rocks, clubs, knives, guns, cars, rockets, bombs and more are objects made by man. They have no ability to think, calculate, plan or feel; man does that.

To blame weapons for any wrongdoing is like putting band-aids on cancer; it serves no purpose and doesn’t solve anything. As you walk across a room, you trip over a footstool…are you going to blame the footstool for that?

A weapon is an extension of the person who picks it up. This person has the ability to think, calculate, plan and feel. It is this person who will define the weapon’s use.

The problems we face to prevent tragedies are found within human nature; within each and every one of us; no exceptions. The potential to do good and the potential to do harm, coexist within each and every one of us since Adam; no exceptions.

If we think getting rid of guns will solve problems and save lives, then let’s get rid of cars, rockets, bombs, clubs, rocks…oh, we need to get rid of candlesticks for they too can be turned into weapons of destruction.

Ridiculous…sure, but the point is…these weapons are not the problem, the person controlling their use is; the potential for good or evil is within each of us. Have you ever been so mad that you wanted to throw something…to shoot someone? Of course, you didn’t, but what about the next person…see what I mean.

If we removed every possible object that could be used to harm someone…human nature would use his or her bare hands. This seems so ridiculous, it makes sense.

Elimination is not the answer…Including is…not guns, but God. Otherwise, we’re just putting band-aids on cancer.